We study how the willingness to enter long-term bilateral relationships affects cooperation even when parties have … little information about each other, ex ante, and cooperation is otherwise unenforceable. We experimentally investigate a … research, longer interactions facilitate cooperation. However, many individuals avoid long-term commitment, with uncooperative …

less discriminate and hence generates weaker incentives for cooperation than when monitoring is free. There are subtle … parties. The results contribute to the understanding of peer-enforcement of cooperation in social dilemmas and whether there …